From:
John Lee
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[7 August 1847]
Source of text:
RAS:JH Archive 10/5.21; Reel 9
Summary:
Gratitude for Cape Results. Placed it next to account of the Northumberland Equatorial and Dome.
Contributor:
John Herschel Project
Gratitude for Cape Results. Placed it next to account of the Northumberland Equatorial and Dome.
Stormy night followed by calm morning. Balloon is now filling for 9 a.m. liftoff.
Notes on trapping air at different elevations [during balloon ascent]. G. B. Airy and JH will be absent. W. H. Sykes will arrive this evening. Will make another ascent Monday.
Thanks JH for drawing of JH's house. Sends drawing of JL's Hartwell Observatory and publications from the observatory.
Earlier sent JH some pencils, etc., and copies of the first two numbers of the 'Terror of the Northern Hemisphere.' Now sends third number.
Is sending JH a lithographic print of Isaac Newton.